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Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell  
Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever...
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Part memoir, part meditation on crappy television, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is a raucous ride through the cultural wasteland of Generation X. Don't think, though, that this book's obsession with meaningless trivia is worthless. Chuck Klosterman's...
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
by Sarah Vowell
Publisher Comments One of the most popular commentators on public radio's much-loved "This American Life", Vowell explores her own life and the world around her with a discerning eye, quick wit, and a droll sense of humor. "Take the Cannoli" offers readers a great...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine
Publisher Comments Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most...
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner
Publisher Comments There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear...
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's This...
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his...
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Forget everything you've read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, intelligent, and convincing endorsement of today's mass entertainment, national bestselling author Steven Johnson argues that the pop culture...
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included...
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Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College, Inc., and Museumworld
by James B Twitchell Publisher Comments Branding has become so successful and so ubiquitous that even cultural institutions have embraced it. In this witty and trenchant social analysis, James Twitchell shows how churches, universities, and museums have learned to embrace Madison Avenue rather...
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments Now in paperback--"Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times" is the tenth oral history by the Pulitzer Prize winner and his account of an "American century" of hope, activism, and determination....
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals...
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The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan Publisher Comments Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you take your chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many of us would; witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizing journalists. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan blames the dog-eat...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”—The New York Times Book Review Americans’ working lives are growing more precarious every day...
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser Publisher Comments In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly...
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Dirty a Search for Answers Inside Ameri
by Meredith Maran Publisher Comments Why do teenagers use drugs, what happens to them when they do, and what can we do about it? Venturing into uncharted territory, mother and award-winning journalist Meredith Maran takes us inside teenagers' hearts, minds, and central nervous systems to...
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Snobbery: The American Version
by Joseph Epstein
Publisher Comments "Snobbery" is Epstein's "deliciously readable" ("Harper's Bazaar") collection of essays skewering all manner of elitism. Filled with dishy detail, "Snobbery" takes up its subject in contemporary America, examining the discriminating qualities in all....
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Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell
Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever...
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